World Sound Healing Day

I received many suggestions that Feb 14 should be examined
for possible effects of the 5th Annual World Sound
Healing Day on February 14, 2007. The following paraphrases
one of the major organizers, Jonathan Goldman:

Like all previous World Sound Healing Days, this is a day
when people
throughout the planet will take five minutes to send a Sonic
Valentine to the Earth with the heart sound "AH" filled with
the intention of Peace and Love! I think you will agree that now,
more than ever, we need to consciously project sound to the
planet in order to assist in co-creating peace and harmony.
Join together with thousands of people throughout the planet as they tone an
"AH" together for five minutes during that day, projecting
the energy of Light & Love throughout the Planet.

As part of our continuing assessment of different categories
of events, this was included in the array of efforts to use
modern communications, especially email lists, the Internet,
and intentional word-of-mouth recruitment to organize
meditations and peace prayers on a large scale.

The formal hypothesis test was defined for the 24 hour UTC
day. The result has Chisquare 86255.137 on 86400 df, for p =
0.636 and Z=-0.347. The outcome is thus slightly negative,
and not interpretable as evidence for an effect for this
event. Of course our signal to noise ratio is very small, so the
result should not be taken as a negative indicator.